Hi Enrique!
I read them at about the same time, maybe earlier. You could
be right
about the death of Grey. I seem to recall he had faked his
death in
order to avoid retaliation of some sort. But again, this is
dredging up
mnemonic information with serious gaps in it.
Going back to Bill Crider's comments: I would think that
Smith's Arkady
Renko series qualifies for hardboiled discussion and/or
reading list.
Regarding historical noir: Thinking about other additions to
the list
along with Smith's Rose, and Carr's The Alienist and Angel of
Darkness.
I'm currently reading Frederick Busch's The Night Inspector,
wondering
if it fits into any genre but "litra-choor." Noir to its
bones, but a
storyline that may or may not fit -- since it's literary,
it's
confusing. If Terrill Lankford is lurking, he ought to know
that Busch's
protagonist could be Bob Lee Swagger's great-grandpa.
Nihilism is
hereditary?
... Reed
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